Discussion on: How did you end up in your current role?

[Doug]

I currently write code examples in Go for AWS docs. I got here by:

1. Working as a journalist for the university newspaper while getting my CS degree (go OSU Beavers!)
2. Hiring on at Tektronix in the mid-1980s as a technical writer, although I had no idea such a career existed.
3. Working as a contract writer from 1988 to 1999.
4. Taking a Java certificate class at UW.
5. Working as a Java dev in downtown Seattle during the .COM days.
6. Going back to work as a contractor at Microsoft (C#, what's that?).
7. Taking a Ruby class as part of an online UW class.
8. Getting hired at Amazon in 2015 as the first writer tasked with working solely on an SDK (Ruby, but you knew that).
9. Discovering Go and digging it. Now I get to write Go code daily, while mentoring the new folks.